Quotes About Wealth

Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1,000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it?

When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.

And, just as in the Roman Empire the rich had found ways of avoiding paying taxes, so also now the main burden fell upon the mass of the population. Thus, in Commynes's words, 'it was pitiful to see and learn about the poverty of the people.

Poor alcoholics were bums; rich alcoholics were eccentric.

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

and on her head she wore a gold crown studded with diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires and emeralds.

To Fran, for choosing me over a rich guy.

Pirates owner and real estate baron John Galbreath owned a horse named Roberto as well as a ballplayer of the same name, and the two meant about the same thing to him.)

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,As sages in all times assert;The happy man's without a shirt.

Happy man, happy dole.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it buys the conditions for happiness: time, occasional freedom from constant worry, a moment of breath to plan for the future, and the ability to be generous.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

The neurotic rich, as one doctor he knew used to term his clientele. The worried well.

The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person.

Stock markets are not a way of putting money into companies, but a means of taking it out. The

No one will be buried with the epitaph 'He maximised shareholder value

In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition.

To the connected and ruthless flow the spoils. -From Counternarratives

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).